ABSTRACT
With the trend toward multinational corporations, free trade pacts and dismantling import barriers, organized labour has been steadily losing ground in the United States. To reverse this trend, this book argues that US unions must create ties with unions in other countries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Unions and New Constituents
chapter 2|37 pages
Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and Beyond
A New Form of Unionism in the Twenty-first Century?
part II|54 pages
Lessons from the Past and New Frontiers in Modeling Unionism
part III|53 pages
Union Wage and Employment Effects U.S. Evidence
part IV|81 pages
Union Wage and Employment Effects
chapter 7|60 pages
Collective Bargaining, Relative Wages, and Employment
International Microeconomic Evidence
part V|71 pages
Desire to Unionize and Union Impact on Workplace Practices and Performance
chapter 10|39 pages
Unions and Establishment Performance
Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
part VI|57 pages
U.S. Union Organizing Any Hope for a Rebound?
chapter 11|39 pages
Can Increased Organizing Reverse the Decline of Unions in the United States?
Lessons from the Last Quarter-Century
